Comments on: Tax Reform

By: savvy

savvy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:38:53 +0000

Though I pay no income taxes yet..I shudder every time I look at that returns paper my parents struggle to fill year after year knowing my time will come.

By: kachwanya

kachwanya — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:32:20 +0000

By definition A tax return is a document that can be filed with a government body declaring liability for taxation. The issue that individuals have to fill the tax return does not make any literal sense.

Online version would be better as it should be able to auto fill most of those annoying blank spaces. And the the landlord crap..most land lords are prominent people and i bet government know or ok the commercial buildings, at end the government has all the records and why they disturb people is beyond any common sense

By: Prousette

Prousette — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:49:59 +0000

…”As it is both forms seem to have been designed by dyslexic, epileptic monkeys on crack and safari cane highs writing in a moving vehicle driving over corrugated potholes”

Ouch!

By: Gish

Gish — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:42:23 +0000

Damn those KRA peoples.Finally filled them and they were brought back it is said that the landlord details were incomplete.

By: NiKolaS

NiKolaS — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:43:17 +0000

clearly you have a lot to say. sadly my only contribution to this debate is: OH HELL YEAH! sigh.

By: vituvingisana

vituvingisana — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:26:46 +0000

I thought the US Tax Code is horrendous (laws passed by politicians… not the IRS fault) but Kenya is even worse!!! I could use TurboTax in the USA. In Kenya the process is bloody manual!!!!

By: Siena

Siena — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:45:14 +0000

This makes me feel better. Canada’s tax system is equally absurd. I finally did mine this year – under the watchful eye of my father who for years has been kind enough to negotiate those little boxes.

Everything repeats itself on several other pages, there’s a whole stream of (ifs) and of calculations to make (but through overly complex columns of if this is true, then proceed here and add from B). Even better: each province has a different taxing “system” with Quebec being the most original!

I imagine that for people like you and I, with little to declare business-wise, they might as well just have one sheet of paper that consolidates our straight forward (and in my case, measly) earnings. Wouldn’t that make everyone’s lives easier?

By: Chrenyan

Chrenyan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:08:09 +0000

I agree – we should just append signatures to P9s and be on our way!

By: Our Kid

Our Kid — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:12:05 +0000

Wow. This isn’t just any rant. This is what would make me fire the Commissioner (or whatever they call the top honcho at KRA) and give you the job M!

But you telling them to go online? Clearly you haven’t tried to get your PIN online. You fill in the details, and it tells you, now go to KRA. You go to KRA and they tell you.. everything is online, so go back to stare at your monitor. Genius!

Mudskippah… I know the feeling, I really do.

By: WathiiFm

WathiiFm — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:11:14 +0000

Why do they even ask who is my landlord and the rent i paid for that year???

Did u notice they were using the 2006 forms?